On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 7:00 PM edgardi...@gmail.com <edgardiasco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The choice of the sign is arbitrary. So why make this change? What is the > benefit?
The answer to that question is what the website http://luschny.de/math/zeta/The-Bernoulli-Manifesto.html is all about. I think you have to read that website. Here's a random quote from that website that might peak your interest: "By now, hundreds of books that use "the minus-one-half" convention have unfortunately been written. Even the major software systems for symbolic mathematics have that 20th-century aberration deeply embedded. Yet Luschny convinced me that we have all been wrong, and that it's high time to change back to the correct definition before the situation gets even worse. Therefore I changed the definition of $B_1$ in all printings of The Art of Computer Programming..." - Donald Knuth -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CACLE5GBOnd-gxNV29EUqKtB3BmBPPizQus%2B_6tkN45ES5oUdng%40mail.gmail.com.
